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From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Suggestion for testing framework
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 23:02:09 +0100
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Cc: Erik de Castro Lopo <mle+tools@mega-nerd.com>, "Balazs Attila-Mihaly (Cd-MaN)" <x_at_y_or_z@yahoo.com>

On Tuesday 03 June 2008, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> Balazs Attila-Mihaly (Cd-MaN) wrote:
> > Hello all
> >
> > It seems that there is agreement that some sort of automated
> > testing is "a good thing" ;-).
>
> I am a huge fan of testing and think that qemu developers and users
> would both benefit from more automated testing.

IMHO Automated testing by itself is pretty much worthless.
The value comes from having someone look at the results, and actively fix 
problems as they are discovered. Once you've allocated resources to do this 
bugfixing setting up the testing is fairly trivial.

Paul